(2003) was the last of Susan Sontag’s books to be published in her lifetime. In the book lists (“Also by Susan Sontag”) found in the front matter of her posthumous publications

appears among her “Essays”. Sontag would likely have agreed with this classification; she herself draws attention to its status as a follow-on to

(1977). That said, the

of

is less akin to that of her portmanteau collections,

(1966) or

(1969), say, than it is to

(1978) and

(1989), both of which are extended, relatively self-contained studies in the rhetoric of culture. The focus on disease and suffering in both and the extended…

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